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Contributions Toward Evidence-Based Psychocardiology: A Systematic Review of the Literature
For individuals in the U.S. & U.S. territories
Although there is extensive research on the psychosocial factors that influence the etiology, progression, and effective treatment of coronary heart disease (CHD), these findings are seldom applied in clinical situations. There are several possible reasons for this, including the questionable quality of some of the research, and a lack of productive dialog between psychologists and physicians. This book aims to correct that situation.
The chapters in this volume are based on a systematic meta-analysis of the international literature by 40 German scientists who convened to evaluate the research and discarded all but the highest quality data on psychological aspects of CHD. The result is a collection of chapters that synthesize the most significant findings and indicate productive avenues for intervention and further research.
Among the topics covered are: chronic emotional distress in the workplace; psychodynamic research on the etiology, course, and treatment of CHD; smoking cessation—risk reduction and evaluation of interventions; physical inactivity as a risk factor and treatment models; anxiety and depression in CHD patients; type A behavior and hostility as risk factors; chest pain, angina pectoris, panic disorder, and Syndrome X; psychosocial aspects of heart catheterization, coronary angiography, and coronary angioplasty; and stress management, relaxation, and Ornish groups. Summarizing tables are included in the book and in an accompanying website. This book will be an important reference work for health psychologists who work with CHD patients, researchers, and cardiologists and other medical professionals.
Introduction: A New Scientific Discipline
—Jochen Jordan and Benjamin Bardé
- Sociological Aspects of the Development and Course of Coronary Heart Disease: Social Inequality and Chronic Emotional Distress at the Workplace
—Reiner Rugulies and Johannes Siegrist - Psychodynamic Hypotheses on the Etiology, Course and Psychotherapy of Coronary Heart Disease: 100 Years of Psychoanalytic Research
—Jochen Jordan and Benjamin Bardé - Smoking Cessation in Patients With Coronary Heart Disease: Risk Reduction and an Evaluation of the Efficacy of Interventions
—Jürgen Barth and Jürgen Bengel - Psychosocial Interventions to Influence Physical Inactivity as a Risk Factor: Theoretical Models and Practical Evidence
—Wolfgang Schlicht, Martina Kanning, and Klaus Bös - Anxiety and Depression in Patients With Coronary Heart Disease
—Christoph Herrmann-Lingen and Ullrich Buss - Type A Behavior and Hostility as Independent Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease
—Michael Myrtek - Chest Pain, Angina Pectoris, Panic Disorder, and Syndrome X
—Kurt Laederach-Hofman and Nadine Messerli-Buergy - Psychosocial Aspects of Coronary Catheterization, Angiography, and Angioplasty
—Jochen Jordan and Claudia Lazanowski - Psychological Interventions for Coronary Heart Disease: Stress Management, Relaxation, and Ornish Groups
—Wolfgang Langosch, Hans-Günter Budde, and Wolfgang Linden - Cardiac Rehabilitation From a Health Systems Analysis Perspective
—Gesine Grande and Bernhard Badura
Author Index
Subject Index
About the Editors
Jochen Jordan, PhD, Dipl.-Psychologist, worked from 1975 through 2006 at the Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy in the hospital of the University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany. He is now director of Germany's first clinic devoted to psychocardiology, the Kerckhoff Clinic, Bad Nauheim, Germany. He has studied education science and psychology at the University of Gießen, Gießen, Germany, and the University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany. He has won awards for the promotion of scientific work from the Deutsche Herzstiftung and for the promotion of scientific cardiac work from the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Prävention und Rehabilitation von Herz-Kreislauferkrankungen (German Society for Prevention and Rehabilitation of Heart and Circulatory Diseases). Other areas of specialization include psychodynamic individual and group therapy, therapy of couples with sexual functional disorders, and body therapy. His primary working areas are in psychocardiology, coping, and the process of psychotherapy.
Benjamin Bardé, PhD, Dipl.-Psychologist, Dipl.-Sociologist, practices psychoanalysis in Frankfurt, Germany. He has studied philosophy, sociology, and psychology and has received postgraduate training in behavior therapy, psychoanalysis, and group therapy. His areas of research interest have included psychocardiology, psychotherapy, trauma (posttraumatic stress disorder), analysis, and development of social organizations.
Andreas Michael Zeiher, PhD, MD, obtained his medical degree in 1981 after studying at the Medical School at Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg, Germany. His medical training continued in the Division of Cardiology at the University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, where he became associate professor of medicine in 1990 and was the director of interventional cardiology from 1990 to 1995. Since 1995, Dr. Zeiher has held the position of Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine in the Division of Cardiology/Nephrology/Angiology at the J. W. Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. He is also currently the vice chairman of the board of directors at J. W. Goethe University and is the past chairman of the Working Group on Interventional Cardiology of the European Society of Cardiology. His research is focused on novel diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for coronary artery disease, including identification of innovative biomarkers for disease activity and clinical application of regenerative cardiovascular therapies using stem cells. He has published more than 200 original papers.


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Barium titanate
Identifiers | |
12047-27-7 | |
ChemSpider | 10605734 |
Jmol-3D images | Image |
PubChem | 6101006 |
RTECS number | XR1437333 |
Properties | |
BaTiO3 | |
Molar mass | 233.192 g |
Appearance | white crystals |
Odor | odorless |
Density | 6.02 g/cm3, solid |
Melting point | 1,625 °C (2,957 °F; 1,898 K) |
insoluble | |
Solubility | slightly soluble in dilute mineral acids; dissolves in concentrated hydrofluoric acid |
Band gap | 3.2 eV (300 K, single crystal)[1] |
Structure | |
Crystal structure | Tetragonal, tP5 |
Space group | P4mm, No. 99 |
Hazards | |
R-phrases | R20/22 |
S-phrases | S28A, S37, and S45 |
Except where noted otherwise, data is given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C (77 °F), 100 kPa)
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Barium titanate is the inorganic compound with the chemical formula BaTiO3. Barium titanate is a white powder and transparent as larger crystals. This titanate is a ferroelectric ceramic material, with a photorefractive effect and piezoelectric properties.
The solid can exist in five phases, listing from high temperature to low temperature: hexagonal, cubic, tetragonal, orthorhombic, and rhombohedral crystal structure. All of the phases exhibit the ferroelectric effect except the cubic phase. The high temperature cubic phase is easiest to describe, consisting of octahedral TiO6 centres that define a cube with Ti vertices and Ti-O-Ti edges. In the cubic phase, Ba2+ is located at the center of the cube, with a nominal coordination number of 12. Lower symmetry phases are stabilized at lower temperatures, associated with the movement of the Ba2+ to off-center position. The remarkable properties of this material arise from the cooperative behavior of the Ba2+ centres.[citation needed]
Production and handling properties[edit]
Barium titanate can be manufactured by heating barium carbonate and titanium dioxide. The reaction proceeds via liquid phase sintering. Single crystals can be grown around 1100 °C from molten potassium fluoride.[2] Other materials are often added for doping, e.g. to give solid solutions with strontium titanate. Reacts with nitrogen trichloride and produces a greenish or grey mixture, the ferroelectric properties of the mixture are still present in this form.
Much work has been dedicated to its morphology. Fully dense nanocrystalline barium titanate has 40% higher permittivity than the same material prepared in classic ways.[3] The addition of inclusions of barium titanate to tin has been shown to produce a bulk material with a higher viscoelastic stiffness than that of diamonds. Barium titanate goes through two phase transitions that change the crystal shape and volume. This phase change leads to composites where the barium titanates have a negative bulk modulus (Young's modulus), meaning that when a force acts on the inclusions, there is displacement in the opposite direction, further stiffening the composite.[4]
Like many oxides, barium titanate is insoluble in water but attacked by sulfuric acid. Its bulk room-temperature bandgap is 3.2 eV, but it increases to ~3.5 eV when the particle size is reduced from about 15 to 7 nm.[1]
Barium titanate is a dielectric ceramic used for capacitors. It is a piezoelectric material for microphones and other transducers. The spontaneous polarization of barium titanate is about 0.15 C/m2 at room temperature and its Curie point is 120 °C.[5] As a piezoelectric material, it was largely replaced by lead zirconate titanate, also known as PZT. Polycrystalline barium titanate displays positive temperature coefficient, making it a useful material for thermistors and self-regulating electric heating systems.
Barium titanate crystals find use in nonlinear optics. The material has high beam-coupling gain, and can be operated at visible and near-infrared wavelengths. It has the highest reflectivity of the materials used for self-pumped phase conjugation (SPPC) applications. It can be used for continuous-wave four-wave mixing with milliwatt-range optical power. For photorefractive applications, barium titanate can be doped by various other elements, e.g. iron.[6]
Thin films of barium titanate display electrooptic modulation to frequencies over 40 GHz.[7]
The pyroelectric and ferroelectric properties of barium titanate are used in some types of uncooled sensors for thermal cameras.
High purity barium titanate powder is reported to be a key component of new barium titanate capacitor energy storage systems for use in electric vehicles.[8]
Natural occurrence[edit]
Barioperovskite is a very rare natural analogue of BaTiO3, found as microinclusions in benitoite.[9]
See also[edit]
- ^ a b Keigo Suzuki and Kazunori Kijima (2005). "Optical Band Gap of Barium Titanate Nanoparticles Prepared by RF-plasma Chemical Vapor Deposition". Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 44: 2081–2082. doi:10.1143/JJAP.44.2081.
- ^ Galasso, Francis S. (1973). "Barium Titanate, BaTiO3". Inorganic Syntheses 14: 142–143. doi:10.1002/9780470132456.ch28.
- ^ Nyutu, Edward K.; Chen, Chun-Hu; Dutta, Prabir K.; Suib, Steven L. (2008). "Effect of Microwave Frequency on Hydrothermal Synthesis of Nanocrystalline Tetragonal Barium Titanate". The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 112 (26): 9659. doi:10.1021/jp7112818.
- ^ Jaglinski, T; Kochmann, D; Stone, D; Lakes, Rs (2007). "Composite materials with viscoelastic stiffness greater than diamond". Science 315 (5812): 620–2. doi:10.1126/science.1135837. PMID 17272714.
- ^ Wadhawan, Vinod K. (2000). Introduction to ferroic materials. CRC Press. p. 10. ISBN 978-90-5699-286-6.
- ^ "Fe:LiNbO3 Crystal". Retrieved 2009-06-06.
- ^ Tang, Pingsheng; Towner, D; Hamano, T; Meier, A; Wessels, B (2004). "Electrooptic modulation up to 40 GHz in a barium titanate thin film waveguide modulator". Optics Express 12 (24): 5962–7. doi:10.1364/OPEX.12.005962. PMID 19488237.
- ^ "Nanoparticle Compatibility: New Nanocomposite Processing Technique Creates More Powerful Capacitors". Archived from the original on 8 May 2009. Retrieved 2009-06-06.
- ^ Ma, Chi; Rossman, George R (2008). "Barioperovskite, BaTiO3, a new mineral from the Benitoite Mine, California". American Mineralogist 93: 154–157. doi:10.2138/am.2008.2636.
External links[edit]
- Nanoparticle Compatibility: New Nanocomposite Processing Technique Creates More Powerful Capacitors
- EEStor's "instant-charge" capacitor batteries


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KANSAS CITY — A Missouri appeals court has ruled that a Kansas-based payday lender can't prevent customers from filing class-action lawsuits over its lending practices.
The Missouri Court of Appeals for the Eastern District in St. Louis last week upheld a lower court's ruling, saying part of QC Financial Services Inc.'s arbitration clause that bars customers from participating in class actions was "unconscionable."
Overland Park, Kan.-based QC Financial is a subsidiary of publicly traded QC Holdings Inc. and does business in Missouri as Quik Cash.
Matt Wiltanger, the company's attorney, said QC was "obviously disappointed with the result" and would likely appeal to the state Supreme Court.
QC Holdings has 596 branches in 24 states and originated $1.35 billion in loans in 2007, posting revenues of $213.6 million. Since 2002, the company has made loans to about 400,000 people in Missouri, though none of those resulted in lawsuits because of the arbitration clause.
But that was before DeQuae Woods, of Florissant, filed suit in mid-2007, seeking class-action status on behalf of similarly situated borrowers. The single mother of two claimed QC violated the state's payday lending laws after she eventually paid $1,800 in interest on an initial loan of $450.
Quik Cash sought to have the case thrown out, noting that the loan contract mandates arbitration. It also waives Woods' right to participate in class-action lawsuits or class arbitration against Quik Cash.
A St. Louis County Circuit Judge Richard C. Bresnahan ruled in December 2007 that the ban on class actions created a chilling effect on legal disputes over loan contracts.
"If a clause immunizes a defendant and paralyzes consumers, it is unconscionable," Bresnahan wrote. "Here there is overwhelming evidence this has occurred."
QC appealed his decision, but the appeals court upheld it, saying the company's policy essentially left consumers "with no meaningful avenue of redress through the courts."
Class-action lawsuits often are the only way to encourage attorneys to take on a case where the individual claims may be too small or costly to pursue.
"The court has given the people the right to join together in a class arbitration and let us take a close look at the practices of Quik Cash and see if they comply with Missouri's payday lending law," said John Campbell, Woods' St. Louis-based attorney. "Of course, we've alleged they don't. But up until now, we couldn't pursue such a case."
Missouri payday lending law caps interest at 75 percent of the initial loan amount.
"Our allegation is that, through a series of different maneuvers, QC attempts to keep people in loans longer than the law allows, and, as a result, people pay many times the amount they borrowed," Campbell said.
Class waivers have had mixed success across the U.S., with some courts upholding them as legal. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, also based in St. Louis, earlier this year said a class-waiver provision similar to QC's in an American Express credit card contract was not unconscionable under state law.
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What's at stake is what's been at stake for the last decade's worth of Disney animated features: An affirmation of whether or not Disney can play in the same box office playground as Pixar, Dreamworks, and upstarts like Illumination and Blue Sky. They've frankly struggled in the wake of Dreamworks' global dominance and Pixar's critical achievements, with pure Walt Disney Walt Disney Animation struggling to find its place in the sandbox that it created. Is Disney the classic western hero, the rugged pioneer who tamed the west but is now no longer fit to live in it?
But in terms of pure numbers, Disney is hoping for something along the lines of Wreck It Ralph, which earned a strong $471 million worldwide last November. That's about the high average for Disney Animation films (Aladdin -$504m, Beauty and the Beast - $424m, Tarzan - $448m, etc.), although obviously many of their old-school classics were released either decades ago (inflation!) or during a period just before overseas box office skyrocketed. The plausible high-water mark is of course Tangled, which became the first non-Pixar Disney toon to cross $200m since The Lion King and grossed $591m worldwide, second only to the $987m-grossing Lion King.
The best case scenario is that Frozen becomes the first Disney Animation film to debut with over $50 million over the Fri-Sun portion of its opening and eventually grosses close to Tangled's numbers, while also snagging an Oscar for Best Animated Feature and the Best Original Song Oscar for "Let It Go". Bonus points if it gets the Best Animated Short Oscar for the terrific old-school Mickey Mouse cartoon "Get A Horse".
But as with all Disney animated films, especially the female-centric ones, the real profit will come in the various princess merchandise that will be sold for years to come, along with the integration of this film and its characters in the Disney parks. Oh, and don't forget the Broadway musical that the film seemed somewhat tailored to quickly become. There is plenty of money to be made from a Disney animated film like this even if it doesn't set the box office on fire. But since the film is pretty great, I'm hoping it does.
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I'm not one to explicitly rank each Disney animated feature in order of qualitative superiority. I don't look at the Katzenberg era as an unimpeachable pinnacle of greatness nor do I turn my nose at the late-90′s output. But if I were to rank the films, Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck's Frozen would be frighteningly close to the top of the list. Gloriously animated, wonderfully acted, and refreshingly feminist, it also contains some of the best "Disney songs" ever, standing tall with, well, whatever your favorites are (I adore the Hunchback of Notre Dame soundtrack, you might prefer something else). It is a glorious entertainment that basically perfects the Disney princess story while using the template to explore all manner of relevant subtext, not the least of which is an affirmation of Disney's own cultural legacy.
The picture tells a rather simple and small-scale story, centering around two sibling princesses young Anna (Kristen Bell) and older Elsa (Idina Menzel) and the kingdom-threatening tragedy that befalls as the oldest sister is being crowned as queen. It is a pure princess fairy tale, told with unapologetic conviction and with no explicit mockery or post-modern sideways glances. It nonetheless offers as a course correction and a slight commentary on the genre, which is all the more potent for being subtle and in the service of a top-notch example of such. It doesn't condemn the notions of love-at-first-sight or happily-ever-after even while it acknowledges that true love comes in many forms aside from the fairy-tale romance variety.
It is genuinely feminist in the best way: It is about women while also being about women while treating both things as utterly normal. It contains a princess heroine who is genuinely charming and openly funny and whose relative ability to take charge is never really called into question while refusing to treat any of this as remotely noteworthy. The genuine chemistry that Anna shares with every character, from her sister to her would-be suitors is infectious, and she may in fact be my favorite Disney princess ever. All of the major characters are genuinely charming and lively, from Anna's two potential boyfriends to the comic relief talking snowman (spoiler – he's not nearly as annoying as you feared and quite witty). There is a refreshing lack of overt villainy to the film as well, as Elsa is never truly painted as evil, rather someone choosing to hide from the world after she accidentally uses her frightening powers and does harm in a fit of not-unjustifiable anger.
There are bits and pieces of Wicked in the film, not least of which is the casting of Menzel (who kills it just as hard as Bell) as the "snow queen", and the film never looks upon Elsa with anything other than empathy. Frozen's arc, of a girl told to hide away what makes her special even by those who would claim to love her with the resulting collateral damage, is rife with subtext. It operates as a parable for homosexuality as well as a commentary on how women are constantly condemned and punished for not conforming to ever-changing and contradictory standards of femininity. I don't need to point out the modern examples of both and I'll let the folks at The Dissolve, BitchFlicks, or Movie Mezzanine elaborate in the coming weeks if they so chose, but this is worthwhile material for the kind of movie that will surely be seen by generations of young people and their parents.
There is a richness and a subtle sadness to the core relationship between Anna and Elsa, of so much time lost to fear, self-doubt, and some questionable parenting at a key juncture. There is a beautiful song in the prologue, "Do You Want To Build A Snowman?", that I was deathly afraid would come back as a climactic refrain should the story end badly, and it's just one of a handful of terrific songs. Elsa's big power ballad "Let It Go" is going to be a high school musical theater audition staple for decades and even the third-act "romantic" number is witty about subverting the expectations of such a song while also serving the story.
Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez have crafted some of the best pure Disney songs ever, and it's worth noting what a huge portion of the legendary "Disney magic" is due to their songs above all else. As someone who has been forced to go to Disneyland more times that I care to count, it is the musical legacy that stands tallest and arguably sets Disney apart from its competitors. It is the songs that often come to mind first when one thinks of a given Disney "classic", and it is those songs that is the key to the long-standing Disney legacy even as its competitors make their stand for box office supremacy. It is the tunes like "When You Wish Upon A Star", "Bear Necessities", "Part of Your World", and The Circle of Life" that gives the Disney films their immortality.
Frozen is a wholehearted embrace of that musical legacy, even if its partially in service of the Broadway show that this film is destined to become, as well as an unapologetic re-embrace of the fairy tale genre. The film pushes the fairy tale princess story forward rather than mocking it or bathing in nostalgia. Frozen is not just a new animated classic but a turning point for the Mouse House. Walt Disney Animation has spent the last decade attempting to define what it represents in the shadow of Pixar and Dreamworks. With Frozen, Disney has made good on the promise to "keep moving forward". It has reignited its own towering relevance by admitting what it does better than anyone else and once again doing it better than anyone else.
At the end of the day, Disney is defined by their iconic female-centric fairy tale adventures and the terrific songs that hold them together. That's not the only thing a Disney animated film can be, but it's what separates Disney from Pixar, Dreamworks, and and all the rest. Frozen is both a declaration of Disney's renewed cultural relevance and a reaffirmation of Disney coming to terms with its own legacy and its own identity. It's also a just plain terrific bit of family entertainment.


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An international group recommends that papers relating phenotypes to genotypes involving mutations in the X chromosome gene MECP2 should provide a minimum data set reporting the range of disturbances frequently encountered in Rett Syndrome, A simple scoring system is suggested which will facilitate comparison among the various clinical profiles. Features are described which should prompt screening for MECP2 mutations. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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A gendarmerie or gendarmery (/dʒɛnˈdɑrməri/ or /ʒɑːnˈdɑrməri/) is, in principle, a military[1] force charged with police duties among civilian populations. Members of such a force are typically called "gendarmes". The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary describes gendarme as "a soldier who is employed on police duties" and a "gendarmery, -erie" as "gendarmes as a body".
Modern civilian police forces may retain the title of "gendarmerie" for historic reasons.
The word gendarme comes from the Old French gens d'armes, meaning men-at-arms. During the Late Medieval to the Early Modern period, the term referred to a heavily armoured cavalryman of noble birth, primarily serving in the French army (see Gendarme (historical)). The word gained policing connotations only after the French Revolution when the Maréchaussée of the Ancien Régime was renamed the Gendarmerie.
In the United Kingdom, there is a body called Her Majesty's Bodyguard of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms. Gentlemen at Arms is nearly equivalent to the term gendarme. However, this body is purely ceremonial and is not considered a gendarmerie.
Historically, the spelling in English was gendarmery, but now the French spelling gendarmerie is more common. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) uses gendarmery as the principal spelling; Merriam-Webster uses gendarmerie as the principal spelling.
Title and status[edit]
These forces are normally titled "gendarmerie", but gendarmeries may bear other titles, for instance the Carabinieri in Italy, the Guarda Nacional Republicana in Portugal, the Guardia Civil in Spain, or Internal Troops/National Guard in Ukraine.
As a result of their duties within the civilian population, gendarmeries are sometimes described as "paramilitary" rather than "military" forces (especially in the English-speaking world where policing is rarely associated with military forces) although this description rarely corresponds to their official status and capabilities. Gendarmes are often deployed in military situations, sometimes in their own country, and often in humanitarian deployments abroad.
A gendarmerie may come under the authority of a ministry of defence (e.g. Italy), a ministry of the interior (e.g. Romania, Ukraine), or even both at once (e.g. Chile, France, Spain and Portugal). Generally there is some coordination between a ministry of defence and a ministry of the interior over the use of gendarmes.
A few forces which are no longer considered military retain the title "gendarmerie" for reasons of tradition. For instance, the French language title of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is Gendarmerie royale du Canada (GRC) (i.e., Royal Gendarmerie of Canada) because this force traditionally had some military-style functions (although separate from the Canadian Army) and because until the 1960s it retained an honorific status as a regiment of dragoons. The Argentine Gendarmerie is a military force in terms of training, identity and public perception, and was involved in combat in the Falklands War, however it is classified as a "security force" not an "armed force", to exercise jurisdiction over the civilian population under Argentine law.
Since different countries may make different use of institutional terms such as "gendarmerie", there are cases in which the term may become confusing. For instance, in the French-speaking Cantons of Switzerland the "gendarmeries" are the uniformed civil police (see: Gendarmerie (Switzerland)). In Chile, the word "gendarmerie" refers for historic reasons to the prison service (the "Chilean Gendarmerie"), while the actual gendarmerie force is called the "carabineros".
In some cases, a police service's military links are ambiguous and it can be unclear whether a force should be defined as a gendarmerie or not (e.g. Mexico's Federal Police, Brazil's Military Police, or the former South African Police until 1994). Services such as the Italian Guardia di Finanza would rarely be defined as gendarmeries since the service is of an ambiguous military status and does not have general policing duties amongst the civilian population. In Russia, the modern Internal Troops are military units with quasi-police duties but historically, different bodies within the Tsarist Special Corps of Gendarmes performed a variety of functions as an armed rural constabulary, urban riot control units, frontier guards, intelligence agents and political police. Prior to the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922, British rule was based on the Royal Irish Constabulary - a drilled and armed force located in rural "barracks" that was in all but name a gendarmerie.
In 2014 the Mexican Federal Police, a heavily-armed force which has many attributes of a gendarmerie, created a new seventh branch of service called the National Gendarmerie Division. The new force would initially number 5,000 personnel and was created with the assistance of the French gendarmerie.[2]
Role and services[edit]
In comparison to civilian police forces, gendarmeries may provide a more disciplined force whose military capabilities (e.g., armored group in France with armored personnel carriers) make them more capable of dealing with armed groups and with all types of violence. On the other hand, the necessity of a more stringent selection process for military service, especially in terms of physical prowess and health, restricts the pool of potential recruits in comparison to those a civilian police force could select from.
In countries where the gendarmerie and civilian police co-exist there may be rivalries and tensions between the forces. This was one of the reasons cited for the decision to disband the Belgian Gendarmerie, absorbing its functions into those of a new national police force. In recent years three European countries, Belgium, Greece and Austria, have replaced long-established gendarmeries with civilian police forces having no military links or functions.
In France, the gendarmerie has crowd and riot control units (the Gendarmerie Mobile, along with some corresponding units in the civilian police), counter-terrorism and hostage rescue (GIGN, again along with some corresponding units in the civilian police), maritime surveillance, police at sea and coast guard (Gendarmerie maritime), control and security at airports and air traffic police (Gendarmerie des transports aériens), official buildings guard, honorary services and protection of the President (Garde Républicaine), mountain rescue (Peloton de Gendarmerie de Haute Montagne) and security of nuclear weapons sites.
French influence[edit]
The use of military organisations to police civilian populations is common to many time periods and cultures. Although not wholly a French concept, the French gendarmerie has been the most influential model of such an organisation.
Many countries that were once under French influence have a gendarmerie. For instance, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria had gendarmeries through Napoleonic influence, but all these gendarmeries have merged with the civil police (in, respectively, 2001, 2002 and 2005). Many former French colonies, especially in Africa, also have gendarmeries.
A common gendarmerie symbol is a flaming grenade, first used as such a symbol by the French.
Role in modern conflicts[edit]
Gendarmes play an important role re-establishing law and order in conflict areas, a task which is suited to their purpose, training and capabilities.[citation needed] Gendarmeries are widely used in peacekeeping operations, for instance in the former Yugoslavia[3] and in Ivory Coast,[4] sometimes via the European Gendarmerie Force.
Gendarmerie forces[edit]
- 2 People's Defence Force (Singapore)
- Argentine National Gendarmerie
- Carabinieri
- Civil Guard (Spain)
- Corps of Gendarmerie of San Marino
- Corps of Gendarmerie of Vatican City
- Cretan Gendarmerie
- Cyprus Military Police
- European Gendarmerie Force
- Federal Police (Mexico)
- Feldgendarmerie
- Gendarmerie (Austria)
- Gendarmerie (Belgium)
- Žandarmerija (Serbia)
- Gendarmerie (Switzerland)
- Gendarmerie Nationale (Benin)
- Gendarmerie Nationale (Burkina Faso)
- Gendarmerie Nationale (Burundi)
- Gendarmerie Nationale (Cameroon)
- Gendarmerie Nationale (Chad)
- Gendarmerie Nationale (France)
- Gendarmerie Nationale (Gabon)
- Gendarmerie Nationale (Madagascar)
- Gendarmerie Nationale (Mali)
- Gendarmerie Nationale (Mauritania)
- Gendarmerie Nationale (Niger)
- Gendarmerie Nationale (Senegal)
- Gendarmerie Nationale (Togo)
- Grand Ducal Gendarmerie
- Greek Gendarmerie
- Guardia di Finanza
- Guarda Nacional Republicana (Portugal)
- Internal Security Force (Qatar)[5]
- Internal Troops (Soviet Union and former Soviet states)
- Internal Troops (Russia)
- Israel Border Police
- Kempeitai (former Imperial Japan)
- Royal Marechaussee (Koninklijke Marechaussee) (Netherlands)
- Carabineros de Chile
- Military Police (Brazil)
- People's Armed Police (People's Republic of China)
- Philippine Constabulary
- Rapid Action Force (India)
- Republican National Guard (Portugal)
- Royal Moroccan Gendarmerie
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police (Gendarmerie royale du Canada)
- Romanian Gendarmerie
- Trupele de Carabinieri (Moldova)
- Turkish Gendarmerie
- Venezuelan National Guard
- Żandarmeria Wojskowa
See also[edit]
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary, entry:"gendarme"
- ^ The Economist, August 23, 2014, pp. 30–31.
- ^ composition of the KFOR
- ^ official website of the French Defence Ministry (French)
- ^ Internal Security Force (Qatar)
External links[edit]
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text: Remember all of those rumors of a Beatles TV movie? They might be dead in light of this latest news. A new authorized documentary highlighting the touring years of The Beatles from their early performances at the Cavern Club to their final public concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco in 1966 is in the works, and there are some huge names behind this project. In addition to having the blessing and full cooperation of Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison, Ron Howard is set to direct this yet-to-be-named film, with Nigel Sinclair, Scott Pascucci and Academy Award winner Brian Grazer on board as producers. An official website has been set up for this project, and it's calling on fans that have photos, audio or film of the Beatles from these performances. If you were one of the lucky fans that have rare pics, sound or video from this historic time, head over to TheBeatlesLiveProject.com. Simply stated: This documentary is going to be HUGE!


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All through the spring and summer more than 50 children and adults learned to be compassionate, competent beginner horsepeople at the Borrowed Freedom Therapeutic Riding and Therapy Center. The children came together on Saturday October 12th, 2013 to show their families the results of all that hard work at the annual horse show.
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Other Significant Latino Gay Writers Although the novels of Rechy, Islas, and Manrique illustrate some of the shared themes of Latino gay writers and the divergent means writers choose to employ these issues in their fictions, other Latino gay men writing in different genres have made considerable contributions that must not be overlooked or underestimated. Hunger of Memory (1983), the controversial essayist Richard Rodriguez's conservative memoir, for example, has helped shape--for better or worse--the debates facing all Latinos in the United States around issues of bilingual education and affirmative action. The instant success of Hunger of Memory positioned Rodriguez as one of the most widely read Latino writers. In Days of Obligation (1992), a more recent collection of essays, Rodriguez is more forthcoming about his homosexuality--an issue he sidesteps in his earlier memoir--and begins to address gay-related issues more explicitly, albeit within a very limited and often frustrating scope. Still such disclosures position him as the most recognizable Latino gay man in contemporary literature. Even though Rodriguez lacks the gay and lesbian readership of his contemporaries, no other Latino gay male writer has had consecutive bestsellers among mainstream readers. Other successful Latino gay male writers include the gifted mystery writer Michael Nava, whose Latino gay detective Henry Rios has emerged as one of the most interesting recurring characters in contemporary gay male fiction; the poet Francisco Alarcon whose award-winning work ranges from the erotics of contemporary life to the indigenous heritage of the Americas; and the playwright Joe Dante (aka Conrado Morales) who was one of the co-authors of the Broadway megahit A Chorus Line (1975) and who died of AIDS complications in 1991. There are also a number of Latino gay male writers whose works have yet to appear in separate editions. Their writings are available only in small press anthologies; lesbian and gay periodicals; or, in the case of performers, on video. The current proliferation of performance art in lesbian and gay culture has enabled many talented Latinos to stage their work across the country. Los Angeles-based writers such as Luis Alfaro, who in his lyrical solo piece Downtown (1991) describes his childhood and upbringing in the impoverished and gang-infested Pico-Union neighborhood, and Alberto Antonio Araiza, whose solo piece about testing HIV-positive, Meet My Beat (1991), has been performed throughout the United States and Europe, are perhaps the most interesting and successful Latino gay male performance artists currently at work. Araiza and Alfaro are also instrumental forces behind VIVA!, an organization for Latino lesbian and gay artists in Los Angeles. Alfaro's unpublished comedy about a dysfunctional Latino family Bitter Homes and Gardens has been staged in workshops throughout the country. Other talented writers include the Texas writer and performer, Paul Bonin-Rodriguez; Colombian-American poet and activist, David Acosta; Alberto Sandoval, the Puerto Rican playwright and AIDS theorist; and Chicano writer Gil Cuadros, whose fiction and poetry appear regularly in gay and lesbian journals. All these writers invoke distinct literary styles in order to address any number of issues relevant to Latino gay men.
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Bredbeck, Gregory. "John Rechy." Contemporary Gay American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Emmanuel S. Nelson, ed. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1993. 340-351. Bruce-Novoa, Juan. "Homosexuality and the Chicano Novel." Confluencia 2:1 (Fall 1986): 69-77. Klawitter, George. "Michael Nava." Contemporary Gay American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Emmanuel S. Nelson, ed. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1993. 291-297. Ortiz, Ricardo. "Sexuality Degree Zero: Pleasure and Power in the Novels of John Rechy, Arturo Islas, and Michael Nava." Critical Essays: Gay and Lesbian Writers of Color. Emmanuel S. Nelson, ed. New York: Haworth Press, 1993. Román, David. "Teatro Viva! Latino Performance and the Politics of AIDS in Los Angeles," ¿Entiendes? Queer Readings, Hispanic Writings. Emilie Bergmann and Paul Julien Smith, eds. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1995. _____. "Arturo Islas." Contemporary Gay American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Emmanuel S. Nelson, ed. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1993. 221-225. Saldívar, José David. The Dialectics of Our America: Genealogy, Cultural Critique, and Literary History. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1991. |
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text: Intuitively the decision by the Consejo Nacional Electoral (CNE) yesterday makes me very nervous. While the decision was expected, I got the feeling that it went beyond where it should have, left many question marks in the air and used language to justify the reasons which to me are simply subjective and have no legal basis. This makes me nervous, because while I favored the path of gathering the signatures again to shield them from questioning, I can't help but feel that there is a trap somewhere in our future and we are just walking innocently into it. The Electoral Board cited three main reasons for rejecting the signatures: -The gathering of the signatures was untimely. To reach this conclusion, the Board used two reasons. One, a decision by the Venezuelan Supreme Court issued last year in July which said that the signatures had to be gathered. Two, that the person elected had to be given sufficient time to develop his/her program. On the first one, I do not understand why the February decision by the Constitutional Hall, which said the signatures can be gathered before the date set by the Constitution was not even mentioned. How can the CNE selectively use one decision and not the other? Even more, how can the earlier decision be more important than the other one? On the second reason of giving Ch�vez sufficient time: How come the CNE did not take into account that Chavez' term is actually longer than the three years mid-point set by the Constitution. By reasons of the Constituent Assembly, his period was rest and he has been in power for four and a half years in a country which has a Constitution that sets the Presidential term is six years. Thus, the argument seems to be spurious and irrelevant. -The question asked in the petition is a proclamation and not a request of the CNE to organize the referendum. First of all, given that there were no rules or regulations for calling for a referendum and given that the Venezuelan Constitution says that power resides in the people, why can't it be a proclamation. And even if the form is wrong, what is more important the will of close to three million people that signed the petition or the formality defined after the fact? In fact, when the referendum to ask for a Constituent Assembly was held, the question was changed after the petition had been introduced to the CNE. Why the difference. -The third reason was that Sumate, the volunteer organization which coordinated the gathering of the signatures is not "a political organization or registered in the CNE". Now, this part I found absolutely out of the question. This is saying that anyone gathering signatures for any petition for whatever purpose has to be a political party and that a group of concerned citizens can not act independently to gather signatures for whatever cause. This one bothers me both from the fundamental point of view, the decision seems very undemocratic, but it also bugs me because the Ch�vez administration hates Sumate because of the efficiency with which it ahs managed to gather signatures for two referenda (both now denied), exceeding expectations and at a fraction of the cost of any Government promoted activity., The Chavez administration has been trying to disqualify Sumate both morally and legally, but ahs been unable to do so. With this, it is relegated to a secondary role, which it does not deserve and which may impact the result of gathering the signatures anew. The decision was taken by a three of the five members of the CNE, with the other two abstaining (Not like Juan Forero of the New York Times who reported that it was by a 3-0 vote and only clarifying later in the paragraph that two abstained, making it sound in his usual sneaky way like it was a unanimous decision). The votes were clear, the two pro-Chavez members voted in favor, the two opposition members voted against and the President who is considered to be Chavista-light, voted in favor. (In related news, one of the four members of the Advisory Board for the CNE created by the Supreme Court resigned, supposedly for unrelated reasons, he was considered to be pro-Chavez but fairly independent) On the positive side, the CNE will issue regulations by Wednesday on how to request a referendum which will make it very clear for the opposition how to do it in such a way that it will not be blocked once again. Another intriguing, if not positive, note was the fact that the President of the CNE made reference three times in his decision to the agreement signed last May by the Government on the opposition in which both sides agreed to back the idea of the referendum. From a legal point of view, resubmitting the signatures according to the regulations to be issued by the CNE has the advantage that it would be much more difficult to question them from a legal point of view. Had the signatures been approved, pro-Chavez forces could have gone to the pro-Chavez Electoral Hall of the Supreme Court and challenged them, which would be much more difficult next time. At the same time, any attempt to block them when they are resubmitted, could be challenged in the Constitutional Hall as a denial of the basic right to vote. The opposition will gather the signatures again on Oct. 5th. and hand them in soon after that. It seems quite difficult for the referendum to be held this year, but if there are really no traps or tricks on the way, it should take place in January. Somehow though, yesterday's decision makes me very uneasy, making me think that this is all very well planned and staged and a surprise against it is waiting for us around the corner.


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Cutler - Dohahue Bridge in the park beside the campground
Most of the bridges have been relocated to preserve them
One of two bridges with a peaked roof. They were covered to...
Cutler-Donahue nameplate
Cutler from an angle - notice the ventilation along the top
Incredible mortised structure. Also note the original wood pegs
Stone bridge featured in the movie - Also in the park by...
Close-up of the stone bridge
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English maze in the city park
The Imes bridge near St. Charles
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While WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is celebrating his $1 million-plus book deal on a 600-acre estate and enjoying his status as a lefty fringe hero, former cartoonist Molly Norris is in hiding.
The moral of this column is that in today's world, cartoons, if they target Islam, can be more hazardous to your health than crossing the mighty U.S. government and its allies.
Swedish and Danish authorities arrested four suspected militant Islamic jihadists last week for allegedly planning a terrorist attack before this weekend. Their target was the Jyllands-Posten news bureau in Copenhagen. In 2006, the newspaper became the target of terrorist threats after it printed controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in 2005. Authorities say the suspects arrested planned to use the same "swarm" tactics used in the 2008 Mumbai killing spree that left at least 160 people dead.
Kurt Westergaard drew a cartoon that depicted Muhammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban. Last January, a Somali man wielding an ax and demanding "revenge" broke into Westergaard's home. In 2009, Danish authorities arrested three men for planning to behead Westergaard.
Like Westergaard, Jyllands-Posten Editor Flemming Rose, who commissioned the cartoons, now has round-the-clock security. I asked via e-mail how many planned attacks against his paper and cartoonists have been thwarted.
Rose answered that this latest episode represents the sixth or seventh foiled attack.
In his new book, "Tyranny of Silence," Rose explains that he asked cartoonists to submit works on Muhammad in order to stand up to "my perception of prevalent self-censorship among the Danish media" on the subject of radical Islam. Now he has a target on his back.
When we met in 2008, Rose summarized what summed up "The Cartoon Crisis." "They are basically saying, 'If you say we are violent, we are going to kill you.'"
And: "If you give in to intimidation, you will not get less intimidation, you will get more intimidation."
Back to Molly Norris. In April, the one-time Seattle Weekly cartoonist made the mistake of drawing a cartoon that called for an "Everybody Draw Muhammad Day." Norris was reacting to Comedy Central's decision to censor parts of the show "South Park" that depicted a cartoon Muhammad dressed in a bear suit -- wink, wink -- lest showing an image of the prophet offend. The network also bleeped out verbal references to Muhammad.
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